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- politics@lemmy.world
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later, buried in a riverbank near the base, after a massive search.
Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in Houston, and her murder sparked outrage across Texas and beyond. Fort Hood had become known as a particularly perilous assignment for female soldiers, and members of Congress took up the cause of reform. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. With Guillén’s mother seated beside him, Trump spent 25 minutes with the family as television cameras recorded the scene.
In the meeting, Trump maintained a dignified posture and expressed sympathy to Guillén’s mother. “I saw what happened to your daughter Vanessa, who was a spectacular person, and respected and loved by everybody, including in the military,” Trump said. Later in the conversation, he made a promise: “If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with that,” he said. “I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”
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Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
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The personal qualities displayed by Trump in his reaction to the cost of the Guillén funeral—contempt, rage, parsimony, racism—hardly surprised his inner circle. Trump has frequently voiced his disdain for those who serve in the military and for their devotion to duty, honor, and sacrifice. Former generals who have worked for Trump say that the sole military virtue he prizes is obedience. As his presidency drew to a close, and in the years since, he has become more and more interested in the advantages of dictatorship, and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would deliver. “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump said in a private conversation in the White House, according to two people who heard him say this. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” (“This is absolutely false,” Pfeiffer wrote in an email. “President Trump never said this.”)
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Wow. That is a very clear statement.
So he wants to be surrounded by yes-men who are better than him at everything? So he can push their ideas and steal all the credit? Just like normal? All righty then. I can only hope nobody in the military’s top brass actually wants to work for him again.
“This is absolutely false,” Pfeiffer wrote in an email. “President Trump never said this.”
The only part that libertarians / conservatives will care about.
Didn’t Hitler not even listen to his generals? Isn’t that even a knock against the idea of going back in time to assassinate Hitler, specifically because of how bad he was mucking up the war effort? If someone were to go back and kill Hitler, that could actually change the direction of the war in that somebody more competent might’ve directed the war effort better than Hitler. So in a weird way, Hitler might be the least worst possible option.
Hitler’s generals tried to assassinate him. Something Trump was told after making that particular whining complaint.
Maybe the doctor feeding him tons of drugs was the time traveler.
maybe someone like Henning von Tresckow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_von_Tresckow#Plots_against_Hitler
You mean a bunch of Yes Men that lost the war? Sure, why not?
Dont forget the yes men plotting to murder you
To all those that balked at the comparisons some of us made between Trump and Hitler: Eat a dick.
Just one? I have BAGS of dicks they need to eat. Straight up, glad jumbo-sized bags. Eat alllll them dicks you craven sycophantic fucks. It’s good for ya. Builds character.
Thanks but this cult is self sufficient
Dicks are too good for them.
I’ll eat multiple dicks at every meal for a week if the orange nugget can name a single “general”.
Keep talking and sink that ship Donnie.
Hitler’s generals we’re largely good generals. Many came from the Prussian school of war.
The Allies didn’t try to assassinate Hitler because Hitler was causing so many military blunders by thinking he knew better than his generals and overruling them.
Although he probably did say this out loud, this is hearsay and nothing can prove he said this.
It was taken out of context. The media should put us at ease and ask him to clarify.
he needs the kind of resolution hitler recieved on the last day of the reich
Hitler’s generals sucked ass. Why the hell would he want any of them? Especially the blow hard Goering
They allowed and aided in him being dictator. That’s what trump wants it seems
Didn’t Hitler’s generals constantly lie, claim the war was going better than it was, and ignored his directions because they were given under the false pretenses they gave him?
Little column a, little column b. He also routinely ignored their advice when it came to basically anything. He bought his own propaganda hard, insisting german troops go on suicide missions or follow timetables that weren’t realistic even with the entire division on meth.
Hitler lost? Shouldn’t he want the kind of generals that America had?
Well, the American army was trying to kill Hitler. That’s not his preference.
The Wehrmacht also tried to kill Hitler…
Didn’t they stop trying at some point because they didn’t want him to be replaced by someone competent?
You’re right, he should stay the course and then kill himself. Just like Hitler.
Me checking like 15 times that this isnt an onion
